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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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set placeholders on a SQL statement to SAP Hana

Per the PMR, when Cognos generates a SQL statement to access a hana view with required prompts, the SQL generates a select *, not a select col 1,2,3. Support suggested this is expected behavior but it is less than optimal
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

systemd unit file for starting symphony during boot

Currently, the symphony start up script is set under /etc/init.d. We expects to have systemd unit file for symphony start up. Esepcally we are upgrading to RHEL8
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

Autocomplete enabled for the sensitive field - Cognos 11.1.7 IF9

This gives more security and userid/password is safe from intruders.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Possibility to import metadata without the need to access the data

As a data user, I need the possibility to extract the metadata from different systems without the need to have access to data. This will ensure we are able to have a clear image of the different data available in the systems just by reading the di...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Should add checker function while importing BI report from CSV in IMAM

For importing BI Report from CSV using IMAM. If Report name in BI Query section not match to Report name in BI Report section, there are no warning about this. Then, Currently, I need to check it should exactly in csv file. To make sure asset impo...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Future consideration

Alert/notification of crypto keys expiration

Currently there is no way to tell when your Cognos Crypto keys will expire. It takes them expiring and the site not launching and causing errors before you are aware there is an issue.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better Debug logging

When debug logging is turned on to measure "logins" the logs fill up with logins, not just the initial user login, but 100's and 100's of "system chatter" logins as PA confirms internally...something about login. Intial user login is important to ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Running different types of workloads on an IDAA, yet not have one type of workload dominate

For example: We have MAXIMUM_NUMBER_CONCURRENT_RUNNING_SQL_TRANSACTIONS set to 10. We have an application that executes long running queries (minutes in length). We have another running queries that take a second or less. Without the ability to li...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enabling the Batch processing based on Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Fabrics

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

Adding heterogeneous processing CPUs, GPUs and FPGA Accelerator for Spectrum LSF

In the near future we will need more advanced distributed heterogeneous processing , We think it is better to take into consideration the Intel oneAPI and other tools like oneDNN, oneDAL ,...etc. It may need joining openPOWER foundation and IBM wi...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration